[MGSA-L] On the Thessaloniki waterfront today ...

George Baloglou gbaloglou at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 08:01:05 PST 2014


... there was no snow left from yesterday but there were wreaths at the
Holocaust Memorial, along with three hoisted flags: flag of Greece, flag of
European Union, and ... flag of Thessaloniki! Strange as it may sound, I
was unaware of the latter; in fact I only understood it was my hometown's
flag because of Alexander the Great's golden face ... a connection not
quite so obvious to some, as I now see in
http://taxalia.blogspot.gr/2011/01/blog-post_4576.html :-)

-- 

Γιώργος Μπαλόγλου -- Θεσσαλονίκη

http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou (1988 - 2008)

http://crystallomath.wordpress.com (2009 - )
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